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This is the postwar testimony of Alexander van Gelderen, a survivor of the transport of March 10, 1908, from Westerbork to Birkenau. It includes his date and place of birth, occupation, and address. The document also provides information about six men, including some from his transport. It includes their last names, usually their first names, their dates of birth or approximate ages, and their fates. He also mentions seventh fellow prisoner, the unnamed son of one of the men he names, who was murdered with his father in the gas chamber upon arrival at Birkenau.

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